Looter Guy up!!In America we like an underdog, but these people take it too far.
dumba@@
I have been going to New Orleans for over 38 years... and not once without a .45 ACP!
LLS
“I talk to friends about New Orleans like a dysfunctional romance.”
As a former resident, I can tell you that she nails the analogy.
A reality slap in the face. It usually happens by the time you are 28 years old. Stay safe.
She blames “the city” when she should look at who has run the place into the ground. Decades of corruption came home to roost as it was exposed by natural disaster. Hard hitting reporter, she is. Snicker.
Now I’m a jilted lover of the city. I’m angry and confused. Which is the real New Orleans? The one that’s violent and desperate? Or the one that coos softly, and caresses me? The answer, of course, is both.
Perhaps you won’t ‘get it’ til you get yourself killed?
Sheesh.
I’ve seen this kind of behavior from liberals before, in Over the Rhine in Cincinnati. They make a big show of leading for ‘change’. Lasts about 18 months to two years.
Then...they get mugged, and realize ‘I could get my butt KILLED!’.
Its not a hurricane two years ago. Its not about ‘leading for change’.
Its just another story of a liberal that got mugged.
When i was in N.O. this summer we took a ghost tour and at the end of it, our guide told us “tell your friends to come. We’re dying down here.”
It’s sad. I have similar mixed feeings about the city as the author does. But i no longer tell my friends to go to N.O. I go every year and this year was by far the worst. My daughter, who loves going every year said she felt depressed there this time.
It really is dying. But it’s not our fault. It’s their fault they aren’t recovering. N.O. is a tourist town. If you can’t get your act together and stop the crime that is keeping people away, then your city will die. If you can’t get your act together and fix the levy that is scaring some people off, your city will die. I could go on and on.
NO was a corrupt crime ridden cess pool long before Katrina.... all that’s different now is you can’t point to the glossy parts to cover up its problems.
Bwahahahaha...
Sorry.
Looter Guy up!!New Orleans is returning to its old self.
with all this poor NOLA stories... We need to be reminded that thugs were looting stores, shooting at rescue helicopters, shooting at randam people, going in to hospitals and holding guns on nurses and drs, to get drugs for their daily habits. They were far from innocent. I remember when the plane loads landing in my West Texas town, many of them were the last ones out and many many of them had brand new sports shirts on with the little tag still on the back side. We had child molesters, criminals etc. that we caught and put in our jails. I worked intake for 42 hours when that all happened and I will never ever forget the people I saw and babies I held so their mom’s could go to hospital because of dt’s.
Thank goodness there is absolutely no crime anywhere else in this country!
I adore New Orleans.
My grandparents and parents honeymooned there, and I planned to take Xena’s Guy there for the Jazz Festival in 2006 as our honeymoon (yeah, eight months after our wedding, but who cared?).
Preservation Hall, the Morning Call, Jackson Square with the psychics and the bands, the street parades, the Cafe du Monde, the jazz museum . . .
I know an architect I worked with many years ago, when things were marginally better, in San Francisco, who sacrificed his children (literally) to multiculturalism by sending them to the local public school.
Beatings, muggings, rapes, constant intimidation and substandard education but--- they got a giant dose of "multiculturalism".
I often wonder how they fared as adults, or if they even got there.
Sad.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus